Ok, so a little disclosure:

My wife is from Northern Ireland. We eat a lot of potatoes.

We have a 200 y/o farmhouse with a root cellar, so their going-off isn’t an issue.

If your family were on a cabbage and potato diet, you probably could get through a 50 pound bag, but you wouldn’t have any friends.

https://cookbooks.leannebrown.com/good-and-cheap.pdf

After I got divorced, and lived in a very small apartment; r/eatcheapandhealthy was the way I figured out to eat on a small budget. Great subreddit, even if you are not broke.

The value of a freezer when on a food budget cannot be overstated. A lot of folks don’t have room for one, but in the long run, it can be a big food dollar stretcher, especially for produce purchase in season.

A whole chicken can be cooked many different ways. But often you can find cooked rotisserie chicken for not much more. Many supermarkets use them as loss-leaders to get you in the store. And you can cut off most of the meat and use the bones to make broth to make the rest of your meal better.

Rice is surprisingly expensive here in Japan compared to other countries, despite the fact that there’s so many rice farms. You’re looking at around $15-$20+ for a 5kg bag, it’s often cheaper to buy imported rice from the U.S. Which is just perfect, since “America” when written using Chinese characters, is “rice…

This means you’re using a pot that is too small for gas. Lower flame (ie. narrower) or larger pot will solve that issue.

I don’t have a big problem with coil electric stoves. They have all the disadvantages highlighted here, but the learning curve is easy enough and depending on the gas stove you compare it to, sometimes they can actually get hotter (which is good, when needed).

The problem with keeping electric (non-induction) stovetops clean is that if something spills over it basically cooks on the stove top and can be much harder to clean off. I’ve had electric stovetops that were basically scarred for life from this. 

“A properly preheated pan—the default starting point for just about every recipe—will take longer to achieve on an electric range than a gas or induction one”

This sentence doesn’t really make sense because induction is electric. The article is referring to a traditional electric stove (coils or glass), not the modern…

Yeah, forget captchas, the ability to cry at Up should be the “are you human?” test.

I just remembered how emotional I became watching The Elephant Man..

The Elephant Man always gets me. It’s something about the declaration of human dignity against all odds. It’s one of those movies that actively makes me want to be a better person. 

You just had to remind me of Grave of the Fireflys, didn’t you.

considering that yesterday was Int’l Holocaust Remembrance Day, i was fully expecting Schindler’s List to be on here. still think something should be bumped to make room for it. i’ve only managed to sit through it the one time, in the theater, but once was enough so far. when the lights went up, nobody in the theater…

Some friends of mine and I at the time decided that if you didn’t cry in the first 10 minutes of Up, you were probably a Cylon.

But can I buy the clip of him saying “but they don’t get it for now” as an NFT?

Let’s all say it together, folks:

What is going on with the headlines around here. This is a good article on how to practice emotional intelligence at work, but the headline makes it seem like a manipulation. “how to sound more emotionally intelligent”
I’ve seen this a lot lately, headlines that don’t match and sometime contradict the articles that…

I hear you, it must be discouraging to put in all that work to engage with people when they don’t reciprocate.